Alyiioides. 345 



Habitat. — Originally discovered in Morea, this lizard has since been 

 fo\md on Cephalonia, Zante, and Ithaka. 



A. moreoticus is intermediate between A. jitziiujeri and .1. niiji-o- 

 pundatus, but nearer the former. 



3. ALGIROIDES NIGROPUNCTATUS. 



? Lacerta carinata, Schinz, Natiirg. Kept. p. 102, pi. xxxix (18o8). 



Lacerta nlgrojmnctata, Dum. & Bibr. Erp. Gt'u. v, p. 190 (1839). 



Notopholis nigropundata, Bonap. Icon. Faun. Ital., Amf. (1840) ; 

 Gray, Cat. Liz. p. 35 (1845) ; Schreib. Herp. Eur. p. 452 (1875) ; 

 Tomasini, Wiss. Mitth. Bosn. Herzeg. ii, 1894, p. 581. 



Lacerta schreibersii, Schinz, Eur. Faun, ii, p. 24 (1840). 



Lacerta (NotophoUs) nigropundata, Ninui, Atti Soc. Ital. xxvi, 1886, 

 p. 339, pi. viii. 



AJgiroides nigropunctatus, Bedriaj^^a, Abh. Senck. Ges. xiv, 1886, 

 p. 393 ; Bouleng. Cat. Liz. iii, p. 44 (1887) ; AVerner, Verb. Zool.-bot. 

 Ges. Wien, 1894, p. 230, and Rept. Amph. Oesterr.-Ung. p. 27 (1897) ; 

 Schreib. Herp. Eur., ed. 2, p. 371 (1912). 



pjody strongly depressed. Head rather strongly depressed, flat 

 above, 1^ to ly times as long as broad, its depth e<iual to the distance 

 between the centre of the eye and the tympanum, its length 3 J to 

 4 times in length to vent ; snout obtusely pointed, as long as the post- 

 ocular part of the head. Parietal foramen present. Pterygoid teeth 

 absent. Neck as broad as or a little narrower than the head. The 

 hind limb reaches the shoulder or the collar in males, the axil or the 

 shoulder in females ; foot a little longer than the head ; digits slender, 

 compressed. Tail If to 24^ times as long as head and body. 



Upper head- shields sometimes rugose Avith fine striae. Nostril 

 pierced between 4 or 5 shields ; nasals forming a very short suture 

 behind the rostral ; frontonasals as long as broad or, usualh\ a little 

 broader than long ; prefrontals usually forming an extensive median 

 suture'" ; frontal 1} to 1| times as long as broad, as long as or a little 

 shorter thau its distance from the end of the snout, a little narrower 

 behind thau in frout ; parietals \\ to If times as long as broad, often 

 emargiuate on the outer side for the accommodation of the anterior 

 upper temporal ; interparietal small f ; occipital at least as large as 



* Separatecl by a small azygos shield in a male from Corfu : frontonasal in 

 contact with frontal in a female from the same island. 



t A small shield between the interparietal and the occipital in two specimens 

 (^, ?) from Gorizia; parietals forming a short suture between the two shields 

 in the type specimen. 



